{"product_id":"if-then-how-one-date-company-invented-the-future-jill-lepore","title":"If Then: How One Date Company Invented the Future; Jill Lepore","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: As New\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"1787395413\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"ngp5f4-kjgl4f-fwmhjj-6iq6w\" data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"140\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRadio 4's Book of the Week\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Financial Times Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times \/ McKinsey Business Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has no past but the scientists of Simulmatics are the long-dead grandfathers of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorrowing from psychological warfare, they used computers to predict and direct human behavior, deploying their \"People Machine\" from New York, Cambridge, and Saigon for clients that included John Kennedy's presidential campaign, the New York Times, Young \u0026amp; Rubicam, and, during the Vietnam War, the Department of Defence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn If Then, distinguished Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, Jill Lepore, unearths from the archives the almost unbelievable story of this long-vanished corporation, and of the women hidden behind it. 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